The Ides of March gets a Trailer!

Could this be one of the bigger Oscar players this year? Check this out and see for yourself:

-Joey's Two Cents: It looks incredible to me, but it's still early...thoughts?

Take a look at the Poster for The Ides of March

Thoughts?

'Descendants' opening moved forward

According to Variety:

Fox Searchlight has moved the opening of Alexander Payne's "The Descendants" forward by three weeks to the Thanksgiving holiday weekend of Nov. 23 from Dec. 16.


"Descendants," based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, stars George Clooney as an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-establish his relationship with his daughters after his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. Beau Bridges, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Robert Forster, Nick Krause, Shailene Woodley and Mary Birdsong also star.

George Clooney's project The Ides of March will open the Venice Film Festival!

Via Variety:

George Clooney's "The Ides of March" has been tapped as the opening film of the 68th Venice Film Festival on Aug. 31.

Fest hasn't made an official announcement but a source not authorized to speak for the event confirmed the selection Monday.

Sony's dated the political thriller for an Oct. 7 limited release. Clooney directed from a script he co-wrote with Grant Heslov. He also stars in the film, which is based on the Broadway play "Farragut North," written by Beau Willmon.

Pic centers on a young press spokesman, played by Ryan Gosling, who falls prey to backroom politics. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei Jeffrey Wright and Evan Rachel Wood are also starring.

Sony nabbed U.S. distribution rights to "March" in November, with Exclusive Media Group handling overseas distribution.

Venice competition berths have been set previoulsy for Roman Polanski's "Carnage," David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method," Russian auteur Aleksandr Sokurov's "Faust," the fourth and final installment in his "Men of Power" series, and Philippe Garrel's "Un ete brulant" (A Burning Hot Summer).

-Joey's Two Cents: It's shaping up to be a real good fest...thoughts?

Behold the Trailer for Alexander Payne's new film The Descendants!

Payne goes gunning for Oscar along with George Clooney. Take a look:

-Joey's Two Cents: I like the look of this a lot more than I was expecting to. It could very well with the Academy, but we shall see...thoughts?

The Descendants gets a Poster!

Thoughts?

Darren Aronofsky's next project could be a Sci-Fi film with George Clooney!

Via Vulture:

Two months after Darren Aronofsky announced that he wouldn’t be making The Wolverine, Vulture has learned that the Black Swan director has set his sights on a new film: a fifteen-year-old original sci-fi spec script called Human Nature by a little-known screenwriter named Jeff Welch. We hear that George Clooney is attaching himself to star as a man who is cryogenically frozen and wakes up years later to a world in which humans have become pets of another species. Insiders tell us that Warner Bros.–based producer Akiva Goldsman (I Am Legend) is currently budgeting the movie, but if things go to plan, this would likely be Aronofsky’s next project.

-Joey's Two Cents: It sounds like an interesting concept, and both Aronofsky and Clooney are picky with their projects, so I'm definitely in...thoughts?

Evan Rachel Wood Outs Herself as Bisexual

“True Blood” actress Evan Rachel Wood told Esquire Magazine this week that she was a confirmed bi-sexual.

Wood says,

"I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general. I’m more like the guy in my relationships with women. I'm the dominant one. I'm opening the doors, I'm buying dinner."

It may not warrant her addition to our Top Ten Gay Hollywood lists, but we’re going to keep her on our radar.

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Wood’s has been involved on and off with creep rocker Marilyn Manson - at one point announcing their engagement just months before calling it off.

While not admitting that she is currently in a gay relationship, she did say she was moving to New York and would be looking for, “a nice guy or girl” to settle down with.

Wood’s has just completed work on the movie “Ides of March” due in theaters this October and directed by George Clooney.

Based on the play by Beau Willimon, “Ides of March” tells the story of an idealistic staffer for a presidential candidate who gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.

Leave it to Clooney to bring an all-star cast including Ryan Gosling, Marisa Tomei, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Evan Rachel Wood.

Watch Behind the Scenes Filming of George Clooney’s “Ides of March”

Alfonso Cuaron's sci-fi epic Gravity is actually getting ready to shoot?

Via The Playlist:

Things had gone fairly quiet on the front of “Children Of Men” helmer Alfonso Cuarón‘s much-anticipated 3-D sci-fi epic “Gravity” since George Clooney replaced Robert Downey Jr. and joined Sandra Bullock in the cast, but it looks like producer David Heyman has now broken the silence with a refreshing update.

Heyman recently spoke with Collider and revealed that production on the long-gestating feature is due to get underway in London at, “The end of May. The whole film has been pre-vised and figured out, it’s fuckin’ awesome. I mean, unlike anything you’ve seen in space. It’s just great. He’s a privilege to work with—he’s a real visionary.”

“We’re using technology that’s never seen before,” he said. “This film will be more immersive, I believe, than anything you’ve seen before. You will really feel like you are in space. It will not be an objective view of space, it will be an immersive view of space. And you know as you say, with ‘Children of Men,’ he loves these long shots. It’s gonna be a really bold, bold film.”

The producer also adds that Cuarón won’t be shooting in 3D as presumed and the film will be converted into the format in post-production instead. “Because this film is being made almost entirely digitally, a huge amount of it’s being made digitally,” Heyman added. “3D felt like a really organic—because so much of it’s being done digitally, you can make the 3D in a post process much more easily than if you were shooting all live-action or sitting in a room.”

We’re just excited to hear that the talented Mexican filmmaker will soon be back in the game, after all, the development, casting and pre-production drama had threatened to see the pic fall by the wayside at several points along its history. Our original script review describes the story as a “streamlined thrill ride” that would see our protagonist in a “nonstop race to get back to earth” after an outer space accident puts her in danger. Previous reports have also teased a 20-minute single shot opening scene , an $80 million budget which may or may not be still the case, and—for better or worse—CGI to dominate about 60% of the film.

Clooney is currently finishing off his third directorial effort with political drama “The Ides Of March” with this scheduling likely meaning he’ll leap over to London fairly soon after he wraps. Similarly, Bullock has been shooting Stephen Daldry‘s “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” with Tom Hanks but that should be (if not already) nearing completion, while Cuarón has been on quite the hiatus in the past few years and is surely eager to get his next fllm going.

Producer Heyman also teased another project he has in the works which was recently accelerated by scoring the rights to a plum, and integral soundtrack. “I just closed the deal on some Beatles songs, and we’re gonna do an animated film, a musical animated film using Beatles songs, with a love story between a dung beetle and a lady bug.” He stopped short of revealing which songs they are, however, adding that, “you have to figure out the songs you want. But we can switch out a little bit. So we’ve just got ten songs, and it’s a bit early to say what they are, but I’m really really excited.”

-Joey's Two Cents: I'm very eager to see this movie and if it's a success, so any news is good news to me...thoughts?

George Clooney to make a movie about the Wall St. bailout?

So it seems, according to Variety:

George Clooney and Grant Heslov's production shingle is onboard to produce a Wall Street bailout pic based on 2009 Washington Post article "The $700 Billion Man."

Project is being developed as a potential directing vehicle for Clooney. Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Entertainment optioned the rights to Laura Blumenfeld's article about TARP mastermind Neel Kashkari for Clooney and Heslov's Smoke House banner.

Kashkari, a top official under then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, helped develop the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, which bailed out the big banks following the economic collapse in 2008. Kashkari subsequently left Washington and moved to an isolated cabin in Northern California.

Zach Helm ("Stranger Than Fiction") has been tapped to write the pic. Clooney will produce with Heslov and Double Feature Films partners Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher.

Shamberg and Sher last worked with Clooney on Steven Soderbergh's 1998 pic "Out of Sight."

Clooney is currently filming "The Ides of March." in which he co-stars alongside Ryan Gosling. Sony will distribute the political drama on Oct. 14. Clooney also stars in Alexander Payne's "The Descendants," which Fox Searchlight will release on Dec. 16.

Clooney is repped by CAA.

-Joey's Two Cents: Clooney is a talented director, so if he sees something in this project, I'm willing to go along with it, especially since I dug Helm's script for Stranger Than Fiction...thoughts?

George Clooney Recovering From Malaria

The net is buzzing today with stories about George Clooney being deathly ill with malaria. Well, it’s not true.

Clooney did have malaria, in fact he has had it twice, but his reps have released a statement trying to clear everything up.

“George is completely over the Malaria he contracted while in the Sudan during the first week in January. This illustrates how with proper medication, the most lethal condition in Africa, can be reduced to bad ten days instead of a death sentence."

Clooney was in Sudan last week with execs from Google and the United Nations to work on stopping a new civil war in the troubled country. Clooney is well known for his interest and trips to that region including the Sudan and Darfur.

It should shame us that a condition that takes thousands of lives each year in the region can be treated so cheaply and routinely as to turn it into a ten day discomfort.

Malaria is a parasitic disease that involves high fevers, shaking, chills, flu-like symptoms and death, and is caused by a parasite that is transmitted from one human to another by the bite of infected Anopheles mosquitoes.

Watch Justin Timberlake and Matt Morris Sing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"

Last night, during the "Hope For Haiti" telethon, Justin Timberlake and Matt Morris crooned a version of Leo Cohen's "Hallelujah".

If you saw it, then you probably got goose bumps as the song gained in volume and meaning.

Timberlake seems most comfortable singing and performing in the pop culture arena, but last nights performance was sure to touch more then a few hearts.

It was one of the best performances of the evening, and summed up lots of emotions into one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

It's good to see young Hollywood come together in a way that is not just self serving, tabloid grabbing, over the top sensationalism used to grab headlines.




All of this was part of George Clooney's "Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief" telethon in Los Angeles, California on Jan. 22, 2010.
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George Clooney To Appear On ER

Dr. Ross is back! George Clooney is set to appear in several upcoming episodes of "ER".

He was photographed on the set of "ER" on Thursday, as the actor returned to his old show to reprise his role as Dr. Doug Ross.

His character will be featured in at least one scene practicing medicine at a hospital in Seattle. He is also set to film scenes at County General.

The scenes will be filmed out of sequence to work around the actor's busy schedule.

And it appears he may be reuniting with his old "ER" love interest.

Julianna Marguiles, who played nurse Carol Hathaway for six years on the show, confirmed she is also shooting scenes for the show.

The "ER" finale will air April 2 on NBC.

George is also busy filming his latest comedy "Men Who Stare At Goats" due next year. The film features Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges.

The movie revolves around a reporter in Iraq who might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's First Earth Battalion, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.

He has also just wrapped work on the animated adventure comedy "Fantastic Mr. Fox", where he voices the role of Mr. Fox.

Joined by a group of voices that include Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman and Anjelica Huston, it tells the story of angry farmers who are tired of sharing their chickens with a sly fox, and look to get rid of their opponent and his family.
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